On the Erotic Ecliptic

Horoscopes For Your Pleasure

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First thing: I haven’t posted since before the massacre at Club Q in Colorado Springs last week, and just want to say unequivocally and with my whole soul: I am here for the LGBTQIA community, and I will fight any fascist who gets in the way of their freedom, safety, and happiness. I have your back, siblings.  

I started Pleasure Centers back in August with the intent of providing an occasional dispatch from the cosmos while helping readers tune into their own pleasure universe, focused on the ways we can resource our erotic awareness for healing. This continues to expand and grow, but the feedback I’ve mostly gotten from subscribers is this: WE WANT HOROSCOPES.

I am listening, dear readers, and I will provide. Some of you know me from my decades-long astrology residency at ELLE UK, my tenure at LOFT, as an astrology/sexuality expert for WELL+GOOD or way back from my Teen Vogue days. These horoscopes will be a lot spicier than I’ve been allowed space for while writing for major media outlets, and about that, I am excited.

I’ve been thinking about the type of forecasts that would best serve Pleasure Centers readers and have settled on something I’m calling Erotic Ecliptic: Horoscopes For Your Pleasure. (The other option was Critical Degrees: The Astrology of Desire. Do you have a preference? Tell me in the comments.)

This is not your granddaddy’s horoscope column, loves. I do not yet know where it’s all going, but I suspect what comes up may make some of you uncomfortable in the best way by pushing your buttons and making you think about the nature of your own desire – something that can be scary to confront. These horoscopes will give you a map for what you might find yourself longing for and some ideas about how to get it each month.

To begin with, Erotic Ecliptic will appear on a monthly basis (on or before the 1st of each month) but going forward the schedule could change to accommodate the astrological seasons, so columns would appear earlier (for Sagittarius season, Capricorn season, etc.) They’re tailored for Sun, Rising, Venus, Mars, Lilith and Eros placements, so you if you know your chart you can read the horoscope for any or all of these and it should resonate and point you to some kind of awakening potency or latency that needs attention. Bonus: Erotic Ecliptic will also be available via audio for my paid subscribers, in case you want to get a dose on the go. I have Mercury conjunct Eros in Taurus in the 8th, and I relish the opportunity to whisper in your ear.

Now the housekeeping bit: Erotic Ecliptic will be behind a small, very reasonable paywall, although the rest of my posts will remain free. Right now, my yearly subscription is only 36 bucks (monthly is $5) and there are lots of other sweet perks, including discounts on personal readings and a free sexology or astrology question answered by email for yearly subscribers only.

You can absolutely, positively find tons of free monthly horoscope content online, but you won’t find any columns written by a clinical sexologist and professional astrologer in practice for 20-plus years. I offer a very particular lens into your desire matrix by virtue of my specialized expertise.

I’ll be back to my regular (free) programming later in the month, probably for the Full Moon in Gemini, but in the meantime, my first Erotic Ecliptic column and podcast will be up later this week, only for paid subscribers. With Venus and Mars in exact opposition on the first day of the month, Neptune stationing direct, and Jupiter firing things up as it heads back into Aries, December is sexy and sassy AF. Can’t wait to tell you all about it…